Legal and illegal wildlife crimes

Session Submission Type: Pre-arranged Panel

Abstract

This panel is about legal and illegal wildlife crimes committed against endangered and vulnerable species. Despite the existence of many international conventions aiming to protect the natural environment and its nonhuman inhabitants, such as the convention on biodiversity, CITES and the Bern convention that have been transposed into the legislation of very many countries, the ecocidal tendencies of the Anthropocene proceed. These include the consistent killing of free born animals that should enjoy protection under both national and international law.
The papers in the panel discuss on basis of empirical work both the character and consequences of such harms, as well as efforts to stop them through international conventions and the judicial system.

Subtopic

• Topic 2: Types of Offending / Environmental/Green Criminology

Chair

• Ragnhild Sollund, University of Oslo

Individual Presentations

• Legal and illegal trophy hunting - Ragnhild Sollund, University of Oslo

• The illegal trade in Barbary macaques after the CITES-uplisting - Daan van Uhm, Utrecht University

• The duality of protection: unravelling non-natural deaths of wolves in Spain - Patricia Puente-Guerrero, UNED

• The “desperate hope”: Strategic litigation to save Norwegian wolves - Martine S.B. Lie, University of Oslo; Dept. of Criminology and Sociology of Law